If may be a fact that, already for decades, a solid criticism of prescriptive didactics has been consolidated in educational discourse, but it is nonetheless the case that the field still carries the potential for propositioning and theorising and continues to be the target for debate. In this article, we analyse all the papers presented at the Didactics Working Group at ANPED's annual meetings from 2004 to 2008, in order to contribute to and reflect on the propositions included in the working group's papers. By taking into consideration the conclusions of previous reviews of this field, which questioned the bias of the didactic research, focusing excessively on the subject of teacher education and criticising the recurrence of vague conclusions, we have decided to define three axes to enable us to systematise our analysis. These are: subjects chosen, research methodologies employed, analysis and conclusions presented.
didactics; pedagogical practice; state of the art